Heavenly Sword presents: Pounding on limeys and the best cutscene ever!

Jim Sterling of Destructoid writes: Hit the jump for a second video, one I declare a true treat, for it's a rather villainous cutscene of an evil fish n' chips king and his Eurotrash freaks that has blown me away.

It's been so long since I last saw Dune; I must've been 5 or 6 at the time, but come to think of it, it actually does. Pretty strange for a kid of my age, who hardly understood English at the time, to watch a film like Dune. But I enjoyed it as far as I vaguely remember, especially the scene with the sandworms and occasionally any scene with the House of Harkonnen. Everything else is pretty much a blur.

The developers were going to have pre-rendered cinemas...until they found out Cell could just do it for them with the game engine. I'm sure the animation files for these cutscenes are enormous, especially with so much detail in the faces.

Yeah, enjoying the demo much? I think it freakin' rocks. I've been saying for over a year that this will be the best action game this year...and possibly the best storyline! If MGS4 comes out this year though...HS can kiss that award GOODBYE! I doubt it though.

This is one of the reasons I bought a PS3. I reserved it before I even had one! While not being as BA as Devil May Cry, the action is just incredible! Of course, NOTHING is as BA as Devil May Cry.

Bettter then the opening (intro) cut scene for Onimusha 3? I dont think so. But still was good.

Edit: LeonSKennedy4Life you can say that again. Onimusha always had awesome cut scenes. Remember the end of Onimusha one? That was my favorite cut scene untill Onimusha 3 opening I nearly shi* myself when I first saw it. I must have reseted the game 10 times just to watch it again before even starting the game. On Crack maybe lol

I know it was CGI. I was just talking in general terms for cool cut scene not particulary whether it was in game or not. And there a big difference between the PS3 and the PS2 abilities too, ( just to note ).

i hope the cutscenes will be ingame in the full game, cause in demo the first cutscene was a prerendered video, i could tell from the low bitrate pixelation and everytime you skipped it, loading lasted for about 30 seconds (the lenght of the video, which was there to hide the loading screen in the background) The same trick was used in God of War.

but it still has to load.. even great games like Metal Gear Solid have to load after cutscenes... but i think it is loading through the cutscenes through caching when i was playing the demo i watched a cutscene the game started right afterwards but when i skip it loads for a sec when and oh yea alot of the problems from the game has improved significantly since the NBC-Heroes-build ... so dont worry .. be happy =)

That cutscene was one of the best I've ever seen, really weird stuff. The gameplay however looks extremely boring, just like any other button mash-hack-and-slash game. I never did get why people like those games.

Yes because running around shooting is so much more exciting. Same button....again and again.

Anyway it's not button mashing - and I can now say that with the gameplay I have played on my side! I don't like button mashing - I've learnt the combos, I counter, I use aerial combos...and I have to think A LOT. :)

All cutscenes are inengine. Just to clarify though - some will be recorded in order to cover up loading...(eg. look to the demo) really good idea, so we don't have to wait for loading!, others are rendered in real time.

now ive got to get heavenly sword halo mass effect gta 4 army of two bioshock assassins creed uncharted drakes fortune: damn both the xbox and the ps3 are great consoles and i love them both im getting all of these but damn im gonnaq be broke

Ok sorry about the r1 mistake I meant camera view, L2 r2, and it's as plain as day in the demo as it is here in the 1st video. Just look at the screen as you pan/run left or right. Tearing. Its all over this video too.

You won't pay $60 for a game that you have to look really hard to find tearing, it's funny how the game is not even out yet and you have already made up your mind. This game is for PS3 and won't work on your 360

This demo was done months ago on an earlier build of the game.....thats why it showed up on HEROES when it did, and that episode of HEROES was filmed months before it aired. Plus the Devs have mention the bugs in the demo and have said they have since fixed them. I have no worry that they will ship a tip-top version of this game.

For MarioFromTexas. I don't own a 360, I own a Ps3, so don't jump to that conclusion just because I pointed out a negative about Heavenly Sword. I love my Ps3 and there are great games out, and great games coming out. And the 3 dumb fu(ks that disagreed with me and agreed with this retard, well your just as fu(king dumb as he is. So play the 1st video again, and play the demo, and keep telling yourselves there is no tearing. Unbelievable.

Yocdub, I hope the game does have this tightend up in the final version I really do, your right the demo is from an old build but what about this video?

It is as if the AI is playing by reverse golf rules, closest to the pin shoots first. There were only ever a few times when more than one enemy was attacking at a time and often enemies a few paces away simply stand and watch until the player had dispatched (in glorious fashion) the closer foes. Could it be that it was on an an easy setting or early on in the game and as you advance through the game more enemies attack simultaneously with improved tactics in order to "ramp-up" the difficulty as you advance? A learning curve if you will?

"Could it be that it was on an an easy setting or early on in the game and as you advance through the game more enemies attack simultaneously with improved tactics in order to "ramp-up" the difficulty as you advance? A learning curve if you will?"

Correct - this is just about the first level also. There's a Hell Mode which is almost impossible to beat.